Storage rack



Patented May 13, 1924i.

Led-tde? TILLIAM lRIEHD, OEA CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STORAGE RACK.

Application led July 19, 1923.

To all to hom t may concern:

lie it known that I, VILLIAM REID, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usetul Improvements in Storage Racks, of which the following is a speciiieation.

My invention relates to storage racks for linotype magazines, and has for its object the production of: an improved device lfor kthat purpose. A linotype magazine is a flat body of nearly rectangular shape, and

of considerable length and breadth as compared to its thickness. The present device is designed to store a considerable number of such magazines in a small space, and to provide easy access.

In the accompanying drawings- .F 1 is a side elevation;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation at an enlarged scale of the upper part of the rack, and with three magazines shown in position;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: is a perspective view of one of the bearing bars attached; and

F ig. 5 is an enlargement of part of Fig. 2.

The frame of the rack consists of upright angle irons 10 connected together by cross ties which are preferably also angle irons.

Part of these cross ties form a central;y

bridge or table 11 on which are mounted the bearing bars for supporting the magazines. Each bearing bar consists of an 'angle iron 12 connected to another angle iron 13 by rivets 14. The angle irons 13 are connected to the members which -form the table or bridge 11 by rivets 15.

Across the top of the frame near the front is a bar 16, and in this bar are a series of pins 17 spaced to correspond to the spacing of the bearers 12. The magazines are shown at M in Figs. 2 and 5, and near the lower edge of each magazine is a rib- 18. The magazine bodv slips in between two adjacent bearers 12, and the rib 18 rests on one of the bearers. rThe upper edge of the magazine passes in between two adjacent pins 17, and these pins hold the magazine upright. f

0n the lower edge of the magazine, and near the front edge thereof, is a projection Serial No. 652,496.

which forms an operating part of the magagine and which is arbitrarily represented at 19 in Fig. 5. At the front of tlierack the angle iron 13 is shorter than the angle iron 12, and part of the vertical flange of angle iron 12 is cut baclr to the end ot iron 13, as shown at 20 in Fig. l. In the vacant space 2O thus left extends the projection 19 on the lower left front corner ot the magazine. At the top and back of the frame is a plate 23 which acts as a stop for the back edge of the magazine so that it cannot be pushed in far enough to canse the projection 19 to strike either 12 or 13. As thus constructed, a projection 18 on one side of the magazine rests on top of one angle iron 12, and another projection 19 on the other side of the magazine extends under the front end of the next adjacent angle iron 12, the two angle irons forming a channel within which the body of the magazine is coniined, and the first of said angle irons constituting a bearer for supporting the magazine.

Beneath the overhanging ends of angle irons 12 is a board 21 on which the lower edge of a magazine may rest at the time of inserting it in or withdrawing it Jfrom its channel in the rack. At the eXtreme front end of the overhanging part of angle iron 12, the horizontal flange is bent downward in a curve as shown at 22. W hen a maga zine rests with its lower edge on board 21, the rear end of its rib 18 is just above the extreme tip of the curve 22. As thus constructed, the curve 22 Jforms an incline to facilitate the insertion of a magazine in its channel between two adj' acent angle irons 12.` When so inserted, the weight of the magazine rests entirely on top of a bearer 12.

What I claim is:

1. In a rack for storing magazines each having a rib on one side and a projection on the other. a series of angle irons forming channels for the reception of such malgazines, each angle iron having one flange serving as a support for the rib of one magazine and having a part of its other iange cut away to receive the projection of another magazine.

2. In a device of the class described, a frame, and a series of parallel bars carried on the frame and furnishing a series of channels for the reception of linotype magaznes, each bar serving to support the Weight of one magazine and being provided with a recess 'for a projection on another 5 magazine supported on an adjacent bar.

3. In a rack for storing lnotype magazines, each magazine having a rib on one side, a series of receiving channels formed by a series of parallel bars, each bar serving to support one magazine with its rib rest- 10 ing on the top of the bal', and means for supporting the magazines upright in the channels.

WILLIAM REID, 

